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Need a quick Thanksgiving warm-up that gets everyone moving the minute they walk in? Thanksgiving Fitness Blasts are 12 colorful workout cards, each with 6 exercises and a flock of fun Thanksgiving characters. Students do each exercise for 30 seconds, so one Blast makes a 3-minute workout.

What's Included

• 12 Fitness Blast workout cards (Blasts #1–12), each with 6 different fitness or skill-based exercises

• Introduction plus 4 pages of teacher directions, one for each way to use the Blasts

• A PowerPoint version (cover plus all 12 Blasts) you can project on a screen or wall

• Print-ready PDF (21 pages) plus JPG files of every page

4 Ways to Use Them

• Station Cards: Post the Blasts around your space. Small groups complete all 6 exercises, then rotate to a new Blast.

• Trading Cards: Print 2 or 4 per sheet and give each group a card. After 3 minutes, groups trade cards and keep going.

• Projector: Put one Blast up on the screen and have the whole class move together. A great way to start class as students walk in.

• Wall Posters: Enlarge the Blasts to poster size and post them around your room.

Sample Exercises

Jumping Jacks, Mountain Climbers, Squats, Burpees, Plank Hold, Push-ups, Sit and Reach, Wall Sit, Lunges, Skip the Room, Gallop Around, Grapevine Step, Slide Step, Tuck Jumps, Swim Strokes, plus Thanksgiving moves like Strut Around, Touchdown Dance, Heisman Steps, and Jump the Pumpkin.

What Students Practice

• Strength: push-ups, squats, wall sits, and plank holds

• Flexibility: sit and reach, toe touches, and arm rolls

• Endurance: running in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, and burpees

• Balance: balance on 1 foot and stork balance

• Locomotor skills and agility: skipping, galloping, crab walking, grapevine steps, and slide steps

Use the Blasts as a PE warm-up, fitness stations, or a classroom brain break during the weeks before Thanksgiving. Laminate the cards and you can use them year after year.

Designed for grades K–5.

Created by Cap'n Pete, a physical educator with more than 30 years of teaching experience.

More Thanksgiving PE from Cap'n Pete

Get all 6 sets and save 25%:

• Thanksgiving PE Activities & Games Bundle

Or choose the sets you need:

• Thanksgiving Movement Stations – 20 station cards

• Thanksgiving Instant Activities – 20 warm-up signs

• Thanksgiving Fitness Blasts – 12 workout cards

• Paper Plate Activate – 20 exercise plates

• Thanksgiving PE Memory Game – 32 matching card pairs

• Turkey Flock Fitness – 28 exercise task cards